Bardidi released under the banner of Sarat Bani Chitra in Radha, Purna, Prachi and other Kolkata cinema halls in January of 1957.

Sharatchandra grossly underestimated his writing abilities, and Bardidi - a tale of a girl married off and widowed long before becoming a woman - was published in the Bengali magazine Bharati in 1913 by a well-wisher using a pseudonym since the author did not authorize the publication. It turned out the whole of Bengal would erupt in appreciation and Saratchandra Chatterji would become a celebrity when his real name as the writer was revealed.

Uttam Kumar's character Suren is the son of the rich and influential lawyer and zamindar (landlord) in Pabna district (now in Bangladesh) played by Pahadi Sanyal. Suren, however, wants to make his own life and takes up the job of private tutor for a girl whose elder sister Madhabi is the ill-fated widowed-as-a-girl woman who lives in the same house with their father (Chhobi Biswas).

Suren, however, neglects his duties as the tutor and eventually returns to his rich family, marries (Dipti Roy plays Suren's wife) and after the death of his father, delegates the management of his estate to a trusted manager (played by Dhiraj Bhattacharya). But Suren never forgets that Madhabi had come to visit him when he was hospitalized with grave illness.

In the meanwhile, Madhabi's luck runs out as her sister-in-law drives her out of the house, and the land owned by her husband is also captured by Zamindar Suren's manager due to defaults on loan payments. When Madhabi is stranded with nowhere to go, Suren hears of her predicament, returns the land and takes him upon himself to travel on horseback to give her the news himself. The story ends with another tragedy - Suren dies over that journey.

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